Freudowskie i lacanowskie kierunki rewizji autorytetu nauczyciela

Abstract

My paper develops the idea of the critique of traditional models of the teacher’s authority as posited by Lech Witkowski in his latest works. I want to show that the insights of psychoanalysis into man’s functioning in culture are of paramount importance for pedagogy, since they open up new possibilities of looking at the peculiarities of the educational relation. Turning to Freud and Lacan, I seek answers to the question concerning the ubiquity of a fixed model of the teacher as the Subject of Certainty and explore the ways of the psychoanalytical critique of what one could call “teachers’ typical pose of mastery”. I conclude with some propositions of what the task of critical pedagogy ought to be, given that the figure of the authoritative teacher impedes its emancipatory mission.